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The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Centre and the CBSE on a plea to make ‘Moral Science’ subject compulsory in class I to XII in schools across the country. A bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice A K Siki issued notices to Human Resources Development Ministry and the Central Board […]

Acting on a plea seeking the cancellation of candidature of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi constituency, the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to him. The plea was filed by Kiran Walia, Kejriwal’s Congress rival in New Delhi. In the plea, she has alleged that he is a permanent resident of

A special court on Friday pulled up the CBI for “sitting over” and delaying further investigation in a coal blocks allocation scam case and directed it to expedite the ongoing probe. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar observed this after the agency sought more time to complete its ongoing investigation in the case pertaining to allocation

An Indian-origin former bank worker, who siphoned off 120,000 pounds from her client, was ordered by a Scotland court to pay back a token one pound and be deported. 31-year-old Satnam Kaur of Glasgow, an ex-customer advisor who worked with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Aberdeen city, took USD 180,780 and transferred the amount

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction of Kerala CPM leader MV Jayarajan for calling state high court judges “idiots”, but reduced the sentence from six months to four months. An apex court bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen upheld Jayarajan’s conviction holding that he has no remorse for his utterances against high

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on the plea of Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai against her “offloading” from a flight to London at the Delhi airport. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also issued notice to IB and Immigration Department seeking their responses on Pillai’s plea terming the “offloading” act as

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on the plea of Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai against her “offloading” from a flight to London at the Delhi airport. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also issued notice to IB and Immigration Department seeking their responses on Pillai’s plea terming the “offloading” act as illegal and

In what may be beginning of a deluge of litigation in Indian cricket over questions of public law, the Rajasthan High Court has set forth to examine a question of “bias” in the selection of team for Ranji Trophy competition this year. Incidentally, the High Court admitted a writ petition by Rajasthan’s first class cricketer

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti on Friday installed a Provisional Electoral Council in a key step toward averting a constitutional crisis after weeks of protests and political uncertainty. The swearing in of the nine-member council representing different sectors of society took place at the Supreme Court shortly before a United Nations Security Council mission was due to arrive

NEW DELHI: CBI on Friday registered a fresh case in the coal block allocation scam against unknown government officials and Indal (Indian Aluminium Company), now Hindalco, for alleged irregularities in the use of coal from Talabira-I coal block. The company was allocated the block in 1994. The agency had last year closed its previous case